The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has volunteered to track down Commonwealth Bank planning clients affected by poor advice to line up compensation....
Industry Super Australia has called on the Senate to disallow the Government’s FOFA regulatory changes claiming they will see a return to the bad old days....
Financial advisers have been reminded the first-round deadline for the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms has arrived, which means fee disclosure statements should...
Proposed regulatory reforms of the FOFA legislation should be put on hold following the Senate Economics Committee report on ASIC’s performance, ISA believes....
ASIC, Treasury and the TPB have been urged to ensure the harmonisation of the standards applied to advisers....
Questions are being asked about Industry Super Australia’s integrity after its 'Compare the Pair’ advertising campaign was labelled as potentially misleading by ASIC....
Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, claims industry funds had a vested commercial interest in resisting the Government’s FOFA changes....
The FSC says the Government’s FOFA changes announcement means its time to end the scare-mongering. ...
Industry lobbyists are giving the Federal Government’s decision to plough ahead with the implementation of some elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms a mixed...
The planning industry has welcomed the Government’s FOFA changes most of which will be imposed via regulation but which include a tougher approach to conflicted remunerat...
The Federal Government has moved to impose much of its FOFA changes by almost immediate regulation but with significant tightening around conflicted remuneration....
Senate Committee recommends FOFA amendments be passed but Greens and Labor Senators object to all the suggested changes....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...